{"id":16900,"date":"2025-03-22T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2025-03-22T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:01:03","slug":"ben-shapiro-struggles-defending-elon-from-nazi-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16900","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Struggles Defending Elon From Nazi Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It really looked a lot like a Nazi salute. And he did it twice. A non-troll would afterwards say &#8216;oops!&#8217;, my bad, I didn&#8217;t realize in the moment what that looked like.&#8217; Instead, he just joked and claimed he&#8217;s a victim&nbsp;of people calling others fascist too easily. He either did it on purpose as an inappropriate&nbsp;joke, did it on accident and is too blind to realize it was a mistake, or did it on purpose because he&#8217;s an actual Nazi. My guess is the first one, with the second one being the next most likely&#8230;I hope it wasn&#8217;t the last one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ben Shapiro Struggles Defending Elon From Nazi Criticism\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWBOKrIFGOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really looked a lot like a Nazi salute. And he did it twice. A non-troll would afterwards say &#8216;oops!&#8217;, my bad, I didn&#8217;t realize in the moment what that looked like.&#8217; Instead, he just joked and claimed he&#8217;s a victim of people calling others fascist too easily. He either did it on purpose as an inappropriate joke, did it on accident and is too blind to realize it was a mistake, or did it on purpose because he&#8217;s an actual Nazi. My guess is the first one, with the second one being the next most likely&#8230;I hope it wasn&#8217;t the last one. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wWBOKrIFGOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1358,1598,1650,770,2179],"class_list":["post-16900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ben-shapiro","tag-elon-musk","tag-fascism","tag-history","tag-nazis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16901,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions\/16901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}